Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 12:42:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Scott McLemee <mclemee-AT-igc.apc.org>
Subject: Re: M-I: State-Capitalism (fwd)


For an account of various arguments on this topic, see W. Jerome and A. 
Buick, "Soviet State Capitalism?  The History of an Idea," SURVEY no. 62 
(January 1967).  You might find this journal in a good university 
library.  Very distantly related to the conception put forward by Walter 
Daum in his book (mentioned by Paul Zarembka) is the position developed 
by the Johnson-Forest tendency in the US Trotskyist movement -- about 
which, as Lou Proyect reminds me, I am supposed to have written a paper 
for this list.  Sorry.  I can, however, forward a copy of the 1941 
resolution presenting an early formulation of this group's ideas to 
anyone interested.

There are quite a few variants of this theory, not all Trotskyist by any 
means.  The US Maoists used to spend a fair amount of theoretical effort 
on this, twenty or thirty years ago.  And there is a really interesting 
set of documents by a Greco-French philosopher and activist, Cornelius 
Castoriadis, available in POLITICAL AND SOCIAL WRITINGS (3 vols).

By all means check out Walter Daum's book.  Even if you end up not 
agreeing with any of it, the exercise will make you smarter.  This is not 
true, alas, of the much better known STATE CAPITALISM IN RUSSIA by Tony 
Cliff, which has been shown to kill brain-cells faster than sniffing 
airplane glue.  I read that somewhere.  

	



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